Dear Christine, I can't recall sending you condolences on losing Archie. You did the right thing in taking him in for surgery. I'm sorry it didn't work out for him. Six is a pretty good age, as you know, but it's never long enough, is it? Joanie and The Beautifuls plus one growly shih-pood-zhu puppy named Wooky (that's shih tzu/poodle cross).